ADVENTURES IN QUANTUMLAND: EXPLORING OUR UNSEEN REALITY - Hardcover

Ruth E Kastner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786346419 ISBN 13: 9781786346414

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2019

Synopsis

This title is a self-contained follow-up to Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (2015). Intended for the general reader but including more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers, it reviews the basics of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics in its newer incarnation as a fully relativistic, realist interpretation of quantum theory, while embarking on further explorations of the implications of quantum theory. This interpretation is applied to new experiments and alleged 'paradoxes' that are found to be fully explicable once various misconceptions are identified.

There is currently much disagreement about the meaning of quantum theory, as well as confusion about the implications of various experiments such as 'weak measurements,' 'quantum eraser,' and delayed choice. This book provides a clear way forward, presenting new developments and elaborating a promising interpretational approach that has completely nullified earlier objections (such as the Maudlin objection). It also explains why some prominent competing interpretations, such as 'decoherence' in an Everettian ('Many Worlds') approach, do not work as advertised.

Adventures in Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality offers a fully relativistic interpretation of quantum mechanics with no discontinuity between non-relativistic and relativistic domains and shows how quantum theory allows for free will and for reconciliation of science and spiritual traditions.

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Review

"I greatly enjoyed Ruth Kastner's book ... a good, readable exposition of a model which not only removes the mystery from quantum mechanics but offers an explanation of the underlying way quantum effects produce the structure of spacetime and give us the impression of an arrow of time, while allowing us genuine free will. As the author puts it, Spacetime is the smile on the Cheshire Cat; the Cat is quantum physics." -- John Gribbin, author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

"Kastner opens a window into quantum mechanics that's never been seen before ... A fascinating view where the pieces of the quantum puzzle seem to fall into place." -- Doug Marman, author of Lenses of Perception: A Surprising New Look at the Origin of Life, the Laws of Nature, and Our Universe

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1786346419
• ISBN 13: 9781786346414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352